NASIM MARIE JAFRY: ON WRITING, READING and CHRONIC ILLNESS

‘Can there exist, in principle, a proper beginning to any story at all? Isn’t there always, without exception, a latent beginning-before-the-beginning?’ Amos Oz

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Thursday, 19 June 2014

Books, glorious books, and a moth that looks embroidered

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In the last week, the postman has brought three classy books. I won a copy of Maggie Gee's Virginia Woolf in Manhattan on Twitter...

Monday, 22 April 2013

Fiction, memoir and International Consensus Criteria

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Charming article from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on fiction and memoir, she says: 'I long for a new form, a cross between fiction and m...

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Friday, 16 November 2012

Doctors & patients & writers ...

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I attended a talk mid-week on doctors who also write , a hop and a skip from me. It was a long talk, almost two hours, and I found it so h...

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Saturday, 5 May 2012

Tagore & Virginia

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One of my friends is big on Tagore and when I told him I'm into birds now he mentioned the tiny poems Stray Birds . I dipped in - real...

Wednesday, 25 April 2012

Lipstick turns into green eyeliner

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ME gives me crazy dreams, cinematic, and it's a boring sin to tell your dreams to others - unless they are actually in them - but I...

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Tuesday, 12 January 2010

Virginia

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Am in a very bad mood. Was kept awake by students partying in one flat. Then woken this morning by workmen hammering in another. The snow i...

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nmj: Scotland, United Kingdom; My autobiographical novel The State of Me was published in 2008 by HarperCollins. Based on my experience of the neuroimmune illness myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), it's my weapon against the ignorance that prevails. I was diagnosed with ME in 1984 by a consultant neurologist after Coxsackie B4 virus. I remain ill today. I've been published in a range of literary magazines and was shortlisted for RLS Award (2005), Bridport Short Story Prize 2011 and Bridport Flash Fiction Prize 2012 & 2023. Links to more published writing below. In slow process of writing novella about my late Pakistani doctor father. Am of mixed heritage.

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